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Making a CV in LaTeX
As one of my professors pointed out a few years ago you should always keep your CV up to date. This is something I am bad at even though my CV is a pretty simple collection of Technical skills, Educational achievements and work history. Part of my problem is that I find Microsoft Word painful to use, and in general it’s probably not a great idea to write a CV in Markdown (though it could definitely be done). Fortunately I know some LaTeX and can use Pandoc so this is a totally solveable problem.
Automatically numbering Figures in Markdown
If you're writing academic style documents in Markdown/HTML it can be handy to be able to automatically number the figures. Here's how to do that using HTML and CSS.